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SWAT team

police Special Weapons And Tactics team
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Summary

SWAT team ranks in the top 0.76% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,776 views/month, #588 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[2]
  • Subclass of: police tactical unit[3]
  • Commons category: Special Weapons and Tactics in the United States[4]
  • Inception: January 1, 1968[5]
  • Different from: Swat[6]
  • P14470: Concepts/SWAT[7]

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Influence

Things named for SWAT team include swatting[8].

Why It Matters

SWAT team has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Entities named for it include swatting[8].

Related Entities

United States

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  1. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · Dishual · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → An FBI SWAT team participates in Solid Curtain-Citadel Shiel
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'ca', 'ckb', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', '
    Sitelink count → 47
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Image: An FBI SWAT team participates in Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield. (16325263567).jpg"
  2. 12w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Subclass of → Police tactical unit
    Country → —
    Different from → Swat
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Concepts/SWAT, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
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